Lucas_Lombriser
Lucas Lombriser (born 12 April 1982) is a Swiss National Science Foundation Professor at the Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva.[1] His research is in Theoretical Cosmology, Dark Energy, and Alternative Theories of Gravity. In 2020[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] and 2021[10][11][12] Lombriser proposed that the Hubble tension and other discrepancies between cosmological measurements imply significant evidence that we are living in a Hubble Bubble of 250 million light years in diameter which is 20% less dense than the cosmic average and lowers the locally measured cosmic microwave background temperature over its cosmic average. Previously, in 2019, he has proposed a solution to the cosmological constant problem from arguing that Newton's constant varies globally.[13][14][15][16][17][18][19] In 2015 and 2016, Lombriser predicted the measurement of the gravitational wave speed with a neutron star merger and that this would rule out alternative theories of gravity as the cause of the late-time accelerated expansion of our Universe,[20][21][22][23][24] a prediction that proved true with GW170817. Lombriser is a member of the Romansh-speaking minority in Switzerland.